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by three14 16y ago
I had the same reaction, until I finally saw a web page with images in Mosaic on an SGI.
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Freedom to Tinker: Trying to Make Sense of the Comcast / Level 3 Dispute(freedom-to-tinker.com)
6 points by three14 16y ago|0 comments
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by three14 16y ago
? When I looked at the article itself, it explicitly pointed this out.
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by three14 16y ago
I agree with that. (Well, except for the idea that it's practical to get rid of every last nuke.) We need to work together AND we benefit from having separate countries and borders.
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by three14 16y ago
Interesting that this was downvoted - probably because someone was impressed by the importance of remembering that we all need to unite to solve problems. I was trying point out how many problems are solved because we have international
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by three14 16y ago
I have no problem getting rid of international borders. Just install a global government of my choosing to control everything. No one else will have a problem with my choice, right?
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by three14 16y ago
We do have a "non-binding" estimate, but they can't turn the wheels in their large organization to get payment for more than the high end of our non-binding estimate. And no one takes us seriously if we say "probably 10 to 12 hours, but th
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by three14 16y ago
We would love to bill hourly. We tend to work for large companies, and they need to figure out how much to budget, so we then end up saying, "this will take between 10 and 12 hours," and then being forced to swallow the costs when it takes
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by three14 16y ago
Here's his own post on Freedom to Tinker: http://www.freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/felten/dr-felten-goes-... I still can't figure out what a Chief Technologist does beyond "advise".
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by three14 16y ago
Has anyone made an effort yet to do the evident thing, and simply build a social service that lets you have separate groups of friends for all features?
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How Hard Is It To Store A Petabyte For A Century?(queue.acm.org)
8 points by three14 16y ago|0 comments
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by three14 16y ago
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Karenina_principle : The Anna Karenina principle was popularized by Jared Diamond in his book Guns, Germs and Steel to describe an endeavor in which a deficiency in any one of a number of factors doom
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by three14 16y ago
The title is true. Some Data from Google Groups is going to be Destroyed. I don't think anyone would have read it to mean that all Google Groups Data will be destroyed. Some Files and Pages will certainly be valuable; it's not like "Goog
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by three14 16y ago
I needed Google to decipher this excellent comment. In case it helps: "Yes," said Arthur, "yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying 'Beware of the Leop
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by three14 16y ago
I always assumed that the logo they put on the website was a stunt to lead into a crowd-sourcing competition, but the crowd-sourcing part was real. It's got all that Web 2.0 goodness. The logo they showed with the box with the gradient co
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by three14 16y ago
I find this point the trivial one. The surprising point is that names really do matter. I had no idea how many sycamore trees there are in NYC before I had a name for them; having a name also meant having a set of characteristics that let
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by three14 16y ago
For a presidential election, you think this estimate is too high?
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by three14 16y ago
http://www.bookthing.org/ for instance will generally take those books.
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by three14 16y ago
Not in the apartment building I used to live in in Manhattan.
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by three14 16y ago
I'm curious if Alex3917's response to this was set to dead as a result of automated spam filters or if there's something else going on.
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by three14 16y ago
It's certainly interesting, but the article itself could be better written. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Mountain implies that it wasn't really Darwin's efforts, nor is it a true example of an artificial ecosystem.
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by three14 16y ago
Without this comment, I wouldn't have given the parent a second glance. And without that, I wouldn't have realized that "slouching towards" is a phrase I easily recognized without being able to recognize the source. So some googling (hah!
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by three14 16y ago
In NYC, my experience with unlicensed cabs at airports is limited, but every time they did try to take advantage. However, I had much more experience with unlicensed cabs in Washington Heights (north end of Manhattan, where licensed cabs re
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by three14 16y ago
I don't understand why people assume efficient markets. This is a good example of a market where I'd assume that the market is not efficient - there are poor information flows about CEO value; empirically, CEOs who are paid a lot don't oft
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by three14 16y ago
And even more efficient yet if people throw out their trash. The point is that people don't hire workers to clean up trash where I see all of it.
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by three14 16y ago
This comment was interesting to me because I know several people like that guy - and their religious views would be better described as "extremely different culturally" than extremist with the common connotations of extremism. I'm having t
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by three14 16y ago
I don't get worked up over landfills, but I do get worked up over all those bits of styrofoam that never make it into the landfills and hang out on the beach or in a park or wherever they happened to land - I'd greatly prefer those bits be
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by three14 16y ago
vhemt.org seems like a wonderful Christian-fundamentalist right-winger site. Just persuade all the liberals to stop breeding, and wait a few years.
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by three14 16y ago
I think the point was that there's a large gap between the threshold of "I need my force myself just to focus for another half hour" and "I've completely overdone it."
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by three14 16y ago
I'm excited about IE9. I think that MS could win even with the haters, if MS keeps up the good work for a few years. For them, a one-off IE9 might be impressive, but not enough to make up for the suffering of IE6.

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